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Hacking the Talent Gap

LDRLB

As a leader you must learn to build bridges leading from old habits and comfort zones to the more fertile grounds of disruptive innovation. You won’t ever engage Gen Y, you won’t unlock their creativity, passion, intelligence and commitment if you don’t respect them.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. Corporations commit the LeBron-on-ice fallacy all the time. That's no dig on James. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. It starts innocently.

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